[Talk-us] TIGER expansion bot

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 27 November 2012 07:30, Toby Murray <toby.murray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:52 PM, andrzej zaborowski <balrogg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 27 November 2012 03:53, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us> wrote:
>>>> I did look at your tiger.py script. I think br might also stand for branch
>>>> as well as bridge. Also, I've seen mtn for Mountain.
>>>
>>> How would one determine whether a br would be bridge or branch? If we
>>> can't, then the script can't expand it.
>>
>> In the TIGER docs br is only for "branch", though there may be cases
>> that deviate from this.
>
> Yeah, bridge is "Brg"
>
> You can see all the abbreviations in "Appendix B" starting on page 271
> of this document:
> http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tiger2006se/TGR06SE.pdf
>
> I pulled the 2011 version out into a CSV file to use in my ogr2osm translation:
> https://github.com/ToeBee/ogr2osm-translations/blob/master/tiger2011_abbrev.csv

Or if you need a python-digestible version, also copied & reformatted
from the docs, it makes up the bigger part of the old bot code at
http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/import/tiger2osm/expand/expand.py

Cheers